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I have some questions for those of you who let your tegu's free roam. I let my baby(3 months old or so) Arg B&W tegu out just about every day to roam around my room for a few hours. The other day I actually left him past his bed time(he usually retires for sleep around 4:30 or so) and came back and expected to find him asleep somewhere and I'd just put him back in his cage. I couldn't find him anywhere until I decided to check in his cage and to my amazement he was actually back in his cage asleep under the cypress mulch! No idea how he got back in there on his own but anyways lol . I was thinking of just letting him be a free roam lizzard all together around my room, but do those of you who do that give yours any sort of container filled with cypress mulch so they can burrow and sleep in there when they want to?

is supervised. He will come out and go back in, warm up, and come back out.

Mike B

Hello there I let my tegus roam free when I am home. I however do not let them out all the time since I worry about what they may get into. It is up to you how you want to do it. I would keep the cage for them to get into when you do want them put up. Good luck
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I let my B&W roam free in one room unsupervised only the house when I am home. Let me eco the concerns already mentioned you have to be very thorough in your Tegu proofing of the area he will have access to. I was sharing the story of mine swallowing and passing a piece of 3"x1"x.5" foam rubber with a friend at a reptile store last night. He told me of one that swallowed a much larger piece of styrofoam, it lodged and killed the animal. I have hard wood floors with carpet you have to worry about them getting their nails caught. My guy hits the paper in his room about 80-90% of the time and usually close to the same spot most of the time. That said if he has access to whole house he he prefers to use the kitchen to let it fly. My wife always loves that You will want to make his enclosure accessible to him so that he can get the humidity he needs as I am sure your home is dryer then that. I have also found Clorox Disinfecting Wipes to be very handy with a roaming Tegu.

Your tegu looks like a younger one. Does it run away from you? Mine is about 3' and freaks out when he is let loose. He always squeezes in somewhere he can hide and it is just always a pain to get him back in his cage. I would love to let him roam, but not unless he calms a little. Did you do anything special to "house train" your tegu?
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My guy "Lucky" is 7-9 months old and is around 32" tip to tip. He is very personable and normally fairly friendly of should I say tolerant. That said he defiantly has moods, some time he is shy, he doesn’t like to be woke up "but most do us don't either", if I startle him me may charge at me but all in all he has a great personality. He spends most of his time roaming around getting into everything! My personal thoughts are he is always looking for something else to eat and I believe that is the motivation for most tegus you hear of roaming the house getting into everything they can find. These guys are eating machines.